The alternative that I use is to note the location of the Winsock, in relation to the runway. If it's said to be left of 26 threshold then I aim to be heading just to the right of it, on a heading of 260. When the markers become visible I'm usually on about the correct heading.
Gerry Winskill FrankTurley@xxxxxxx wrote:
In a message dated 18/09/2007 11:50:01 GMT Daylight Time, pdodds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:I have been trying that trick of yours with some success Frank, but if I then see that I'm quite a bit off line, the adjustment was proving too tricky because I couldn't line up properly at 300% because my eye-brain couple is so fixated on the normal approach picture for RW flying. So I was having to zoom in and out whilst trying to fly. I'm going to try opening a separate mini window showing forward view zoomed to 300% and see if that works. Peter Peter,I went to the trouble of creating a ZOOM gauge which responds to mouse clicks as follows -First O - zooms out Second O - zooms in M - zoom normalI zoom in to 300% just to spot the markers, once I see them I identify the route by noting trees, buildings etc., I then switch to zoom normal. Rather like having a quick squint through binoculars. Taking Bones' point there's no way I'd fly in on 300% zoom, its just used to help spot those runway markers from distance. Frank T.
